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Thu Sep 1, 2016, 02:40 AM Sep 2016

9th Circuit affirms ruling that 99 aliens in Northern Mariana Islands were victims of fraud

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the federal’s court ruling that 99 aliens were victims of fraud by Mariano K. Pangelinan, a job placement agency owner who was slapped with a six-month prison term in 2014 for conspiring with two of his then-employees in filing petitions for CNMI-Only Transitional Worker Permits (CW-1) for some aliens that fraudulently named the company as the workers’ employer.

To qualify as a victim, a person must be “directly and approximately harmed” by the defendant’s conduct, according to the Ninth Circuit order on Tuesday signed by Chief Judge Sidney Runyan Thomas and Circuit Judges Consuelo Maria Callahan and Mary H. Murguia.

The Circuit judges said the record sufficiently establishes that the applicants were directly and proximately harmed by, and thus “victims” of Pangelinan’s deception.

The Circuit judges determined that U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona did not err in relying on circumstantial evidence to estimate the victim’s actual losses.

Read more: http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/9th-circuit-affirms-ruling-99-aliens-victims-fraud/

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